Bruce Bennett/Getty ImagesDevils goalie Johan Hedberg will play again before the regular season ends.

PITTSBURGH -- Devils coach Pete DeBoer doesn't quite have a goalie rotation for the remainder of the regular season in his mind.

But he's getting close to deciding how he'll split up the games between Martin Brodeur and Johan Hedberg.

"I don't yet. We're talking about that. We're going to sit down at the right time with Marty and Heddy and come up with a plan," DeBoer said.

There are two weeks to go and six games after Brodeur starts against the Penguins Sunday night.

"You want to be playing well systematically," DeBoer said of the team. "You want your team to play tight, so to speak, all over the ice. And then the second part is to make sure that you're fresh and healthy. You juggle those things.

"You want to be winning games, obviously, too. But for me it's more that our team game is tight and we're healthy and fresh."

I asked DeBoer how quickly it can go bad for a team heading into the postseason. Is it possible that it could go bad for the Devils with seven games to go?

"I don't think so. You get a sense. I like the way we're playing and where we've been for a while," he said. "We've had some off nights, but when eight out of 10 games for the most part over the last three or four months have been the way we want to play, that's a good sign. I don't think you can lose that over the last five or six games of the season.

"There are a lot of things that get thrown into the blender this time of year. Where you're sitting in the standings. The cushion you have. The desperation of the other teams. There is a lot of stuff going on mentally with your group. It's easy to read too much into it. I like where we're at and I think we just have to keep doing the same thing.

"You want to have confidence. I think confidence is a big part of it. I think we have confidence as a group. We have to keep winning games and doing things the right way in order to keep that."

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I missed this late last week, so wanted to pass it along:

The Hobey Baker Memorial Award Foundation announce that Devils' scout Fernie Flaman, 85, will be the recipient of the 2012 Legend of Hockey.

Guiding the Northeastern University Huskies from 1970 to 1989, Flaman ranks as the longest-tenured and winningest coach in that school's history, racking up 255 victories in 19 seasons.

In the 1980s Northeastern won four Beanpot titles (1980, 1984, 1985, 1988), one ECAC championship (1982), one Hockey East championship (1988) and made the NCAA Tournament twice (1982 and 1988). In 1982, Flaman was named national coach of the year by the American Hockey Coaches Association. His Huskies played home games in the historic Mathews Arena, the world’s oldest artificial ice sheet inside the world’s oldest multi-purpose athletic building, opening in 1910 as the Boston Arena.

Prior to his extensive coaching career, Flaman was a rugged defenseman for the Boston Bruins. From Dysart, Sask., he was signed by the Bruins in 1943 and played three years for the minor-league Boston Olympians before making the NHL in 1947.

Flaman played five years for the Bruins before being traded to Toronto where he won the Stanley Cup in his first season with the Maple Leafs in 1951. After three more years in Toronto, he was back with the Bruins in 1954, playing another seven seasons. Flaman was named the Bruins captain in 1955 and wore the ‘C’ for the duration of his career. In 15 NHL seasons, Flaman was a Second Team All-Star three times.

Not quite ready to hang up his skates, in 1961 Flaman became player-coach with the Bruins top farm club in Providence, a dual role he held for three years. He followed that up with four more years coaching in the minor pros before beginning his extensive collegiate coaching career with Northeastern in 1970. All told he had 21 years as a player and 26 years as a coach.

Flaman has been inducted into three Halls of Fame: The Northeastern Hockey Hall of Fame (1989), the Hockey Hall of Fame (1990) and the Massachusetts Hall of Fame (2011).

He will be honored along with this year’s Hobey Baker Award winner at the Hobey Baker Award banquet May 17, 2012 in St. Paul, Minn. Banquet tickets are available by visiting the Hobey website at hobeybakeraward.com. The Hobey Baker Memorial Award annually honors college hockey’s top player and the 2012 recipient will be announced April 6 from MacDill Air Force Base during the NCAA Frozen Four championship in Tampa and will be webcast live at hobeybakeraward.com at 6 p.m. ET.